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Tuesday, 28 October 2014

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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

BadUSB is a malware that targets USB devices.The BadUSB malware isn't stored on the user-accessible storage partition, but rather on the firmware of a USB device – including Keyboards, phones and flash drives. This means that it's virtually undetectable to conventional anti-virus packages, and can survive the drive being formatted.

Andrea Jackson says: Flaw in the 'Find My iPhone' function of its iCloud service may have helped a hacker to steal nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and '100 other celebrities'. #vmvwiki Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739215/Jennifer-Lawrence-victim-hacker-leaks-slew-graphic-nude-photos-Oscar-winning-actress.html#ixzz3C8iWDhPI Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Apple has admitted it is 'actively investigating' claims that a flaw in the 'Find My iPhone' function of its iCloud service may have helped a hacker to steal nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and '100 other celebrities'.

Saturday, 30 August 2014

Andrea Jackson says: Brain-wave sensing machines have been used to send an email from India to France using nothing but the power of the mind. The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) headsets to record electrical activity from neurons firing in the brain, and convert the words 'hola' and 'ciao' into binary. #vmvwiki Andrea

Could we soon send emails 'telepathically'?

Researchers led by the University of Barcelona used EEG headsets (pictured) to record electrical activity in the brain, and convert the words 'hola' and 'ciao' into binary.

Can listeners hear the difference with hi-res audio (hi-res being 24-bit studio master)? Why are we listening to over-compressed music through low quality headphones? Electronic manufacturers are now building branded support for higher quality music into smartphones, tablets and headphones. #vmvdlt.Andrea

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Welcome to this blog. As twitter is more or less useless from a class point of view I have created this blog to allow you to post interesting and exciting developments in IT that you thing will be of interest to the classes. You will be informed of an email address to post to.

Please do not post a URL only. Add a meaningful title and put a short description of why you think what you found is interesting and or exciting.

I am hoping for lots of interesting IT related things to be posted here